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Askari Legion Boys/Nobs/Flash Gits/Yoofs

derry

Posted 22 February 2017 - 07:07 PM

derry

squig attack arm

Boyz

466 posts

Gender:Male

Location:Sunnyvale, CA

Army Name:Askari Legion (Blood Axes)

So, it's all yours for the low, low price of get-it-out-of-my-house. Let me know what you want and don't want. I can trim down the sprues to save space as well or leave them as is. And if you can think of anything else you need... any ol' bitz, lemme know. I might have them.

Additional nob heads for the Bad Hombres. Once these are painted I will make all the Bad Hombres nob heads with sombreros.

Still some trimming the shoulders and greenstuff stuffing underarms to make the fits right. Still need to paint the arms of the top 10 and put a wash on all 30 arms again. Need to paint some gloves, and finally put on shoulder armor over the worst gap arm. Still need to glue in guns for many of these.

These old metal figures have such character and look especially menacing with new arms. Note that all the arms below are pinned because I wanted to make sure they stick on well.

Zagursnik

Posted 10 March 2017 - 06:35 AM

Zagursnik

Loots from da Lootaz

Freebooterz

2,576 posts

Gender:Male

Location:Yorktown, VA

Army Name:Orks of da Pink Floyd

Having done this same conversion I can appreciate how much it sucks. Taking off too much or too little can really make or break how it looks and ruin it. The proportions are very much out of whack. They don't seem to have the gorilla arm look so you're right in the zone

I the bad hombres. An orky Pancho Villa has always seemed like a great fit. Looking forward to seeing the rest of yours.

"I guess...Grot...you just gotta hold that ol' snazzgun in your hand and it all comes clear to you like it was for me that first time. That's when I knew my one true calling in life.

derry

Posted 12 March 2017 - 10:15 PM

derry

squig attack arm

Boyz

466 posts

Gender:Male

Location:Sunnyvale, CA

Army Name:Askari Legion (Blood Axes)

Spoiler Summary: Stike Korps current progress, Nobs in Flash Gitz mode, shootas with painted fezzes, choppas with unpainted fezzes (at the time of the picture, they are painted now.) About a third of the choppa boys are metal second edition boys with new arms.)

Brown wash is needed on the yellow on most of the models. I need to make more shootas for when the nobs are normal and have big choppas or klaws. I need to spray mat all these models too, especially since the skin is English-style shiny.

Beingmad

Posted 21 March 2017 - 12:14 PM

I have already made about 40 of these arms, with this batch made from Nob kit slugga arms, with slugga chopped off, and replaced with the shootas (from when arms and shootas were separate.)

Back in 2010 I bought two large NIB ork lots for about $80 combined, it was all ork stuff from from the previous codex - had around 120 orks on that type of sprue (separate arms and shootas), and some other goodies.

derry

Posted 21 March 2017 - 01:32 PM

Beingmad, glad to inspire. Some of the earlier greats on the board inspired me before, and many of the current generation make inspiring builds now.

You have some nice items. I see some bikes, metal body 'ardboys, early trukk, etc. Each of these can be upgraded with new parts or replacement parts or scraps/bits you have to give them a look matching the modern Orks or just generally being more awesome.

With new wheels replacing the small wheels on the old trukk, and bits for the sides, you can have an old trukk looking very much like a new trukk. Replacing the old trukk crew with a new boy or grots or a armored cab can help change the look too. Coat hanger roll bars and other enhancements also help. The Gorkamorka trukk is something many meks on this board have modified. Those old trukks make for an easy project to start with and almost always look awesome in the end. A quick search across the web or here on the waaagh (click on link), yields endless ideas.

Bikes: On the front row from the left is a nob on a 2007 (modern) bike, but the next four are bikes like yours. I shortened the ammo feed ramps for the guns and put both guns on the same side. I ordered bits from eBay for the wheel guards, bits for the cowling (in front of the handlebars), and I used the legs of the old bikes and the upper bodies from new Orks.

Beingmad

Posted 23 March 2017 - 08:05 PM

Beingmad

Runtherd

Boyz

292 posts

Gender:Male

Army Name:-

Beingmad, glad to inspire. Some of the earlier greats on the board inspired me before, and many of the current generation make inspiring builds now.

You have some nice items. I see some bikes, metal body 'ardboys, early trukk, etc. Each of these can be upgraded with new parts or replacement parts or scraps/bits you have to give them a look matching the modern Orks or just generally being more awesome.

With new wheels replacing the small wheels on the old trukk, and bits for the sides, you can have an old trukk looking very much like a new trukk. Replacing the old trukk crew with a new boy or grots or a armored cab can help change the look too. Coat hanger roll bars and other enhancements also help. The Gorkamorka trukk is something many meks on this board have modified. Those old trukks make for an easy project to start with and almost always look awesome in the end. A quick search across the web or here on the waaagh (click on link), yields endless ideas.

Bikes: On the front row from the left is a nob on a 2007 (modern) bike, but the next four are bikes like yours. I shortened the ammo feed ramps for the guns and put both guns on the same side. I ordered bits from eBay for the wheel guards, bits for the cowling (in front of the handlebars), and I used the legs of the old bikes and the upper bodies from new Orks.

Thanks for the kind words. I apologize for hijacking your thread haha. It has been quite some time that I've posted anything of value on here, although I would like to change that.
Listed below is the entirety of that lot I described:

6 trukk-boys kits (each with 8 boyz, old style with mid 2000's box)

1 trukk (old style)

2 trakks

1 buggy

4 old bikes

8 ard boyz

12 stikk bommerz

32 boyz

2 metal Ghazghkulls

Combined with some other goodies, that yields 8 (old) trukks, 3 trakks, 2 buggies, and 9 (old) bikes that need to be updated. The first 13 will become updated buggies and trakks of sorts most likely. Between that purchase 7 years ago and now, I've picked up an old style Chimera, an old style Demolisher (both of those for the OOP tread parts), 15 metal shoota/rokkit boyz, 5 plastic nobz, 5 metal nobs, a few metal schorchas, two metal meganobz, a couple of those pirate-style ammo runtz, the old metal land raider crusader bits, some treads from Blood and Skulls Industry, and a load of metal rokkits, glyphs, tw shootas, and other weapons. I've also picked up a few fantasy items I always wanted, which is very exciting for me (the GD2000 limited edition black orc, and the ~2000 orc standard bearer). I forced myself to stop trying to scratchbuild, and I managed to paint ~100 boyz over the past summer and fall, and I'm looking forward to finding more time for the hobby in the upcoming months.

That is a great group of bikes, I believe you have a thread out there somewhere detailing them. Those skulls on the handlebars (which I believe is from the fantasy orc box) looks surprisingly great.

Posted 27 March 2017 - 03:14 AM

Beingmad, , you have a lot of great models in your list. Definitely build the bikes (with boys upper torsos) and the Ghazghkull-based mega armor warbosses (MAWB.) A MAWB with lukky stikk is awesomesauce. The buggies singly and in pairs are great objective grabbers and harassers. One thing you did not list are grots. A couple boxes of grots (10 + runtherd) make great objective grabbers in game and allow you to run lists like CAD + Detachment, for 4 HQ, 4 troops. HQs could be both your MAWB and two painboys made from your plastic nobs (with paperclip in a slugga to look like an 'urty syringe.) The troops could be two units of 20-30 boys, and two units of grots. You could rapidly get to 750-1000 points and get some games in. For list building, a great place to discuss lists is our own DA GOFF FORTRESS, where nutters like me and others discuss list building. Also check with locals. Even though everyone is playing panzee, fish'ead, or Imperial, ask and a few closeted Ork players will come out and share ideas.

Badfang Brassaxe

Posted 11 April 2017 - 01:36 PM

derry

Posted 11 April 2017 - 02:13 PM

derry

squig attack arm

Boyz

466 posts

Gender:Male

Location:Sunnyvale, CA

Army Name:Askari Legion (Blood Axes)

A member of my gaming group is considering Ryza camo. Others are giving advice. Ryza camo is mix of red, orange, and yellow as envisioned by this guy. When I saw it, I thought: Ork camo! Maybe I will try it on these.

derry

Posted 22 April 2017 - 03:22 AM

Used Procreate for the fez this time because I wanted to try it out and I am nervous it will dry out (my batch is old.) I made too much, but it seems to work well. With my old concept of the Legion, I wanted to have the more tactical guys in grey fez, but I changed my mind. Grey does look good though.